Visual Studio 2026 now brings BYOK into the new Agent experience.
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Visual Studio 2026 now brings BYOK into the new Agent experience. Developers can connect Microsoft Foundry, OpenAI, Anthropic and Ollama models. OpenAI and Ollama also support custom endpoints, opening the door to compatible gateways and local deployments. The upgrade is not just a provider menu. The new Agent runs on the Copilot SDK harness, model capabilities vary, MCP tools can be governed with allowlists, and the previous Ask/Agent BYOK path has been retired. That means migration needs functional tests, not just a successful connection. Re-add affected Ollama models, verify tool calls,
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